Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 61 Issue 8
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The Critical Value of Controlled Shot‐Peening in Aircraft Maintenance
PETER O'Hara, vice president of the U.K. Division of Metal Improvement Co Inc, is an active member of a steering committee based in the School of Mechanical Engineering at…
Aerospace Manufacturer Benefits from New Norton SG Abrasive Technology
THE grinding operations that are so important in metalworking manufacturing are growing increasingly complex, due to the use of tough, hard‐to‐grind materials and sophisticated…
Gauging Progress in the Aerospace Industry
THERE is nothing that typifies aerospace engineering more than the production of a wide variety of high precision components in small to medium batch quantities. Associated with…
Machining for Air Data Measurement
THE increasing demand for more and more accurate information about air data measurement has placed stringent demands upon those companies involved in this vital sector of the…
Beaver's Sky High Success
HELPING in the production of one of Britain's most commercially successful airliners is one application of which Beaver is particularly proud. Long association with British…
Subcontractor is Ready to Work From Computer Discs
MANUFACTURERS, particularly in the aerospace and automotive industries, will soon be supplying subcontract machine shops with component designs on computer discs, rather than in…
Reaping the Benefits of CAM in 5‐Axis Machining
INCREASING demand from the aero‐space industry for ever more complicated component shapes to be manufactured has created a need for five‐axis profile machining.
Vertical Machining Centre Features High Option Speed
FOR light alloy cutting, the Kiwa Excel Centre 4 vertical spindle machining centre can be specified with a 10,000 rev/min top spindle speed. This is coupled with a 4,000mm/min…
New Machine Tools for the Aerospace Industry
WAHLI machining centres from Switzerland are high precision machining centres with advanced features. There are a number of models already in use in the aerospace industry — in…
High Speed Machining in Aerospace Engineering
ONE machine tool manufacturer that the production engineers in the aerospace industries seem to have taken to their hearts is the Matsuura Machine Company of Japan.
Leybold Supplies Another Eight Space Furnaces
FOLLOWING their successful employment in the Spacelab D1‐mission, eight more “space furnaces” have been ordered from West Germany's Leybold AG.
Erratum
This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/eb036616. When citing the article, please…
Westland Picks Mazak for Blackhawk Rotor Shafts
WHEN Westland Helicopters was asked to produce the rotor shafts for the Sikorsky Blackhawk, the manufacturing brief was to deliver 40 shafts per month over two years initially…
Ruston's Order New Machine from Marbaix Lapointe
RUSTON Gas Turbines are to manufacture turbine discs for the new GE 38 engine. To externally broach the tree root form of the discs Marbaix Lapointe have designed and produced a…
Increased Productivity Wins Important New Order for Amchem's Laser Machining Centre
Amchem Ltd has recently received an important new order for a laser machining centre from a leading name in aero‐engine production.
Equipment, Materials and Services
A range of transformers for the MIL‐STD‐1553B databus has been released in surface mount format by Beta Transformer Technology Corporation. The B‐2300 series of matching…
News and Views
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) through its jet engine division Pratt & Whitney, and Airmotive Ireland a subsidiary of Aer Lingus are combining to establish a new facility…
News and Views
The Hon K.C. Beazley MP, Australia's Minister for Defence recently visited Marconi Communication Systems Ltd (MCSL) Chelmsford. During the visit he witnessed a demonstration of a…
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